Quotes About Philosophy

N?u anh th?c s? mu?n thoát kh?i nh?ng th? làm cho anh phi?n mu?n, ?i?u anh ?ang c?n làm không ph?i là chuy?n ??n m?t n?i khác mà là tr? thành m?t con ng??i khác

You have to realize just because things don't have tangible reality, that doesn't mean they don't exist. Ideas are just as real as people and property. Ideas have changed the world profoundly to an extent most people never approach

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Books are weapons in the war of ideas.

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

I heard the old, old men say,"All that's beautiful drifts awayLike the waters."

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

The night can sweat with terror as beforeWe pieced our thoughts into philosophy,And planned to bring the world under a rule,Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth?

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?